Frosty the Snowman, a Singable Picture Book

Posted by: Sing Books with Emily on: December 27, 2011

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FROSTY THE SNOWMAN is a Singable Picture Book SURE THING.

If there isn’t a whole lot to be sure of in this world, you can be sure that a roomful of kids will be delighted when you pull “Frosty the Snowman” out of your SING bag.

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Frosty the Snowman
Words and Music by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins
Illustrated by Richard Cowdrey

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Frosty the Snowman
Words and Music by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins
Illustrated by Lydia Halverson
(This version is lots of fun. The pages are printed and folded like an accordion, so you can pull it straight out to see a looooooong Frosty scene)

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FROSTY THE SNOWMAN
Words and Music by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins

Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul,
With a corncob pipe and a button nose
And two eyes made out of coal.

Frosty the snowman is a fairy tale they say.
He was made of snow but the children
Know how he came to life one day.

There must have been some magic in that
Old silk hat they found.
For when they placed it on his head
He began to dance around.

O Frosty the snowman
Was alive as he could be,
And the children say he could laugh
And play just the same as you and me.

Thumpetty thump thump,
Thumpety thump thump,
Look at Frosty go.
Thumpetty thump thump,
Thumpety thump thump,
Over the hills of snow.

Frosty the snowman knew
The sun was hot that day,
So he said, “Let’s run and
We’ll have some fun
Now before I melt away.”

Down to the village
With a broomstick in his hand
Running here and there
All around the square saying,
“Catch me if you can!”

He led them down the streets of town
Right to the traffic cop.
And he only paused a moment when
He heard him holler, “Stop!”

For Frosty the snow man
Had to hurry on his way,
But he waved goodbye saying,
“Don’t you cry,
I’ll be back again some day.”

Thumpetty thump thump,
Thumpety thump thump,
Look at Frosty go.
Thumpetty thump thump,
Thumpety thump thump,
Over the hills of snow.

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Sing “Frosty” with Jimmy Durante:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pu-bVrndgY

Listen to the song, as sung by Gene Autry (with slightly different lyrics), here:
http://www.jango.com/music/Gene+Autry?l=0

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Song History

First recorded by Gene Autry in 1950, “Frosty” was a song written with hopes of riding on the popular sleigh bells of Rudolph.

Interesting info about “Frosty” the song, here:

http://www.christmas-lyrics.org/frosty-the-snowman-lyrics-song.html

Interesting “Frosty” wiki, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frosty_the_Snowman

SongFacts, here:
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=9579

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Frosty as depicted by great illustrator Corinne Malvern

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